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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: May 3, 2023
This spring both James Allen Hall and Aaron Smith published new poetry books. James Allen Hall’s Romantic Comedy (Four Way Books, chosen by Diane Seuss for the Levis Prize) is an ingenious look at…
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June Events 2023 dance performance festival features variety, environment and sense experience [By Tracy Danison]
“Peeling Back”, solo performance by Nina Santes. Photo © Roberto Martinez DURING A BREAK BETWEEN COVID LOCKDOWNS, I went to a performance at one of the big theaters. About 30 minutes into it, people started…
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“The End” [by David Lehman]
from Harvard Review The End by David Lehman The day Graham Greene diedI didn’t know he had diedbut months before I’d writtena poem and called it “The Endof the Affair” stealing his titleand on…
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Forty-Nine): Dobby Gibson [by Angela Ball]
Poem for an Antique Korean Fishing Bobber Little glass planet,I like picking you up.As if I’m holding my own thought,one blown molten with a puffof some craftsman’s breath⏤is it still inside you?You are a…
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Shostakovich: Tahiti Trot [by Lewis Saul]
SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitri (1906-1975) Tahiti Trot (1928)Staatsoper BerlinDaniel Barenboim, cond.(4:08) Vincent Youmans composed Tea for Two for his musical No, No, Nanette in 1927. Shostakovich and his friend, the conductor Nicolai Malko, recalled hearing…
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“May Day” [by Nicholas Christopher]
The demented song of a womanforty four people in this citydie of the same disease Her voice rises and fallsbetween two notesup and down the scaletwo words unintelligible at first She is unseen invisible…
